The San Juan Mountains of south-western Colorado, a westerly extension of the Rockies, are spectacular even by the high standards of that mountain-ous state. From the shoulder of 12,968-foot, pyramid-shaped Engineer Mountain, the view stretches out fifty and more miles in all directions, taking in reddish-walled glacial valleys to the south, lakes and tall canyons below, and, everywhere, off on the horizon and close at hand, more mountains—hundreds of peaks in all, a baker’s dozen of which rise above 14,000 feet mark. continue reading…

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